Been busy. The short round-up of the news is as follows:
Interview today. Went well. Don't want the job.
Weight 107.3kg. Woo-hoo! Lowest in a long while. Thank you Paul McKenna! Bought some new shorts with a waist size not seen in this household for many a year.
Flying away on a "research trip" on Friday. On my own. For 6 days. Good 'ole US of A. A brew of tea parties. Excited? You bet I am. Fairly flash hotel booked (at Mrs Moose's insistence). Me, the laptop and some books. A list of locations to visit while I'm there.
In the meantime, one to mull over...
Lies, damned lies and statistics. But consider these two numbers:
We have to build new prisons and release some non-violent prisoners early and everyone is up in arms about the amount of crime we have - there are 81,000 people in prison.
There were 194,000 abortions last year.
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Morning Moose!
Firstly let me say well done on your continued weight loss as it's very impressive. It sounds like you're doing exactly what you aim to be. As you know I'm a big McKenna fan myself.... in fact it's time to get out the i-pod (other mp3 players are available) and give him an airing as my holiday was full of excesses and now my clothes are full of xxls! Well done on the interview and Yeeehaaa! to the trip next week.
For anyone that's interested my week in puerto banus was excellent. The weather was gorgeous, the villa was pretty stunning and all the girls had a marvelous time. I promise to update my blog with further details as soon as I've got a few minutes spare.
My feet have seriously not touched the ground since I got back what with Roobear's party on Saturday (a whole 'nother story) and then 2 days of up-date meetings with the whole team who are (for once) in the same country.... at the same time!
Must dash, have bears to walk, stuff to prepare and meetings to get to....
Laters dahlings!
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Moose,
Well done on the interview, I am sure you have made the right decision on the job (if offered, of course).
Fantastic news on the weight loss! I have a friend who swears by Paul McKenna and his methods. Does nothing for me, I think I am just the kind of person who is just too sceptical to believe!
USA for 6 swanky days, good on ya!
UK prisons (well judicial system) really piss me off! I think we should have the death penalty for the worst criminals rather than cloth, feed and shelter them for the rest of their living days. All foreign prisoners should be returned to the country of origin regardless of what fait awaits them. I think that should do enough to reduce the numbers! :-) Now take two steps to the left and clime down off my soap box! ;-)
Have a good day ya all.
Keith the BigUn
xx
P.S. good luck on the house move HL xx
Moose - well done you! What a weight loss .... I've got the PMcK CD at home and it's time it went onto the i-pod.
Prison overcrowding - as an ex-Prison Officer, I'm not ashamed to say that having seen what I've seen, I am in favour of the death penalty for those where it is beyond any doubt at all (Y/Ripper et al) and would most definitely send all illegal foreign nationals back from whence they came. One of the prisons in Kent has just foreign nationals in it, taking over 400 places. That would do for starters!!!
What a cracker of a storm we had last night and the rain .... oh my word, it was over the pavement and got perilously close to the top of our doorstep. Thinking of anyone having to mop up today.
jollygit x
Moose - great to see your latest blog - you are sounding just fantastic! It's all coming together nicely, by the sound of it! You must be so excited about your trip to the U.S. Please report back in full.
As for the statistics - Moose, my daughter attends a Catholic school. The pupils have been told in graphic detail what occurs during an abortion. However, they have NOT been told in graphic detail what occurs during intercourse. And there lies the problem - certainly from where I'm standing.
Lyndyloo - how great to have you back! So glad your holiday was terrific and you are another one of our bloggers on a high! It's all good. Looking forward to hearing details of Roobear's party!
Hope everyone else is o.k. We are being washed off the map as I type.
C xx
Glad you don't want the job m'deer. You'll be too thin and gorgeous to be locked away in an office soon anyway! They are advertising for deck chair attendants and life guards on our beach atm...career move?
Muchos congratulathionies on the Woo-hoo! Always good to be able to buy smaller clothes! Such a relief not to have to go to High and Mighty, or Long Tall Sally. Mind you, it's mainly the trannies who shop in our local 'boutique'...
So, a jolly to Boston? Research my great-aunt. Just stay away from the Ho-jos and you should be ok...
Agreeing with Jollygit re death penalty for those suitable...and sending the others back to their home countries. I don't see that just because we should be prepared to house and employ foreign nationals, we should have to put up with them when they abuse their privileges.
I won't be venturing an opinion on the subject of abortions as would be heading into unknown emotional territory...not for myself...one friend had to have two, and that was after two miscarriages as well...a long time ago...and she now has a child...but it was a complete nightmare for her and for all of us at the time..
Anyhoo, we may or may not be moving this weekend.
...as they say in the minimalist house, watch this space...
love
hazel
x
Apropos of b. all...have you ever watched two supposedly intelligent men trying to make up a box? Cardboard, archive, one for the use of. Fold part a, tuck in to part b and Myfanwy's yer welsh cousin.
Oh, and look, the instructions are on the side!
HL - I've watched 'im indoors struggling to open a black dustbin bag and the tear-off fruit & veg bags in supermarkets. Honestly, it's painful, it really is!
jollygit x
Hazel - are you still packing, just in case? At least this gives you a great opportunity for a clear out. Go on - you've been meaning to throw out those old Oasis CD's for ages!
C xx
Relief is at hand. International Badger Rescue has been fighting on our behalf. We get the keys next Wednesday, 27th, and 'officially' move in on 30th.
Hoorah.
Yes ChrissieS. However, old Oasis CDs were once coasters, and are now landfill I spec! We'll be clearing out once we get there, not really enuff time to 'sort' prior...prob just do the official letters drawer, but everything else'll have to wait! The boy started with just one drawer of cr8p and now has three drawers and one cupboard. Cannot see any of that happening at all. No sirree bob!
Now have to rearrange friends and transport, oh, and also have work to do...
dad do you know the piano's on my foot
love
hazel
x
Hazel - a wee reprieve! Aren't you glad.
Did mean to say this morning that I heard your text being read out by Chris last night - I was draining rice at the time and shouted out to Mr S "Hazel is being mentioned by Chris Evans"! The reply being "I take it Hazel is a blog-type person?". Oh yes, I keep forgetting he doesn't read the blog!
C xx
Hazel - you hum and I'll sing it.
Soooo glad you've got the moving date sorted art at last. IBR is fab!
jollygit xx
hello all :o)
Yay Moose - sounds like things are happening for you where you want them too...
As for me - midwife offered to sign me off with stress yesterday, put my due date back a week (thus ensuring full maternity benefits) and gave me a script for 500ml of gaviscon -
Woo Hoo
As fir the orisin issue, I'm in agreement about the foreign nationals who are convicted in this country should be returned home. As for the abortion issue, I know it can be a very sensitive one but having worked with Teenage pregnancy people(and by no means am I inferring that this is the only demographic involved), there is such a massive amount of preventative work that needs to be done in such a variety of settings that it will take an extremely long term committment from any government to secure funding streams etc.
Chrissie I'm horrified that abortion is being explained at your daughters school but there is no real Sex Ed. Some really interesting work has been done around raising aspirations of teenage girls and self respect but to be homnest it's all a bit of a drop in the ocean at the moment....
My isn't this horse a high one!
Will shut up now!
Glad to hear about the delay in moving HL, time for a sneaky glass of vino for a celebration???
:o) Jo
PS Jollygit - We went to my Ma and Pa's last night and the heaven's turuely opened on us - I drove home (about 20 miles) through what appeared to be about 2 lakes on the A5 only to find that our village was bone dry, not a drop was spilt there.....How very random. Meanwhile my mum and dad were under about 2 inches in the garden when we left!
Jo, I don't want you to think that I didn't read all of your comment, because I did. Now, having had a lie-down in a darkened room (had a mild fit of the vapours at the thought of you perched atop a giant stallion , but that's not for here) I say...
BUGGER THAT. A SNEAKY one? A big fat hairy one with knobs on, is what I'm having. Just as soon as I can jemmy me way into the hole in the wall for a lady godiva (on a horse again, what is the matter with me? Good job the entire staff of International Badger Rescue is either chronically allergic to, or detests horses with a venom, else we'd be here all day) or indeed an Ayrton, I'll be down the ye olde vino shoppe quicker than you can say sheepskin noseband.
But thank you for thinking of me.
Hope the folks are ok and not having to put out sandbags or similar...
nosebags
love
hazel
x
I know - it's far too dangerous to be on horseback in my condition, whatever was I thinking??
;o) Jo
Excuse me, but wot the eff? The woman of the testicular removal story has been jailed for two and a half years.
WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT! WHAT!
To how many more people do they think she is going to do that? How the eff can they complain about overcrowding and they put her in prison?
You'd have thought I'd be lost for words wouldn't you.
Well, apart from this comment I am.
Dunkin at 1440 anyone?
Thank you for your time.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/4253849.stm
Did someone mention being horse-whipped naked somewhere? Or am I suffering from sleep deprivation again?
Jo - just briefly on your reply - Catholic schools are BIG on telling children to abstain from sex and their main ploy is to frighten the life out of (mainly) girls over the abortion issue. So many of Ms S's friends are clue-less when it comes to sex. However, we are in the happy position that we have been talking about all things natural since my daughter was about 7 years old and I have never skirted round a single question. Certainly, I found it a challenge when she asked me what an orgasm is, when she was 10! WHERE do they hear this stuff?! But, yes, education is needed and fast!
C xx
P.S. Moose, is this allowed?!
I was really pleased when my 14 year old cousin - on the night before my wedding as we were sat round a restaurant table (well me and Mr Jo, Sister and her hubby and 4 cousin bridesmaid) on hearing the word clitoris was innocent enough to feel comfortable saying to us...... 'What's That' - suffice to say we let her 19 year old sister do the explaining.
Glad to see that innocence remains in some people!
:o) Jo
PS - Moose is this really allowed????
Message from the Pedantry:
Chrissie: Orgasm?
Please explain.
We look forward to your reply.
Yours faithfully
Four of nine
I know my language is leaving a lot to be desired lately, but please gawd 'elp us.
They cut the grass this morning. I have been relatively unable to breathe for most of the day as my new tablets are good, but not that good.
Then I get an earwig making free and easy with my desk space, and I think it was eating the glue on the post-its.
Then, out of nowhere, NOWHERE, a hawk swooped RIGHT PAST MY WINDOW heading towards as-grass-cut-no-longer-hidden bunny...I shut my eyes...just hoping it was quick...
AND NOW I HAVE JUST HAD A BLODDY SWIFT SWALLOW PASSERINE FOOTLESS INSECT CHASING BIRD IN MY OFFICE AGAIN.
Now, don't get me wrong, I LURVE working in the middle of back of beyond, and now my medication seems to be more or less sorted, feel a lot better about pollen/dust/plankton etc but all the same...
EFF EFF EFF EFF EFF EFF.
and it's only Wednesday. I'm so far in the Naughty Corner I can't even reach the toilet paper.
Thank you for your time
x
Fallopian
That's a good word.
However...
Glans
Not quite as much fun to roll around the tongue...
Date: June/July 2001
A livingroom in Glasgow.
A child asks "mum, what's an orgasm?"
Mother pretends she is looking for something under the settee.
Mum: "well, it's really difficult to explain, because it's a feeling, something YOU will know. I can't really explain it, but it will make you happy. So, don't worry about it and we'll talk about it later".
Mum to husband: "I read this in Cosmo"!!
C xx
Chrissie S and Jo - loved the stories!!!
My mum used to visit an elderly neighbour who made it to the ripe old age of 101. A few years earlier, at the age of 92, the neighbour had been reading a fairly raunchy book and she said to my mum "what's oral sex"?!!!! Poor mum - she still won't tell me what she said to the old dear.
Anyway, I thought oral sex was where you talk about it a lot, but what do I know?!
jollygit xx
I used to think that a clatarus was either some sort of dinosaur, or a motorcycle side car.
Blame Peaches.
or the parents...
But going back to what you were saying earlier Chrissie, I think it's superb that you can talk to Ms S about 'stuff'.
I mainly had to find out the hard (sorry) way as mummy went to public school and you jolly well had a keld shar instead...and although I was a bit of a swat (hut hut) at big skool, it was generally assumed by then that you knew how baby rats were conceived. Not out of toilet rolls apparently. Well, not in Class 7 anyway.
Yay Chrissie, Moose, (nearly)Jo, Sammie and everyone else, good luck to you all with children...as an honorary auntie I don't think I appreciate just how easy my job really is!
Yrs.
H. Love
Ms
PS. Think Neil Garratt from next door is my Brother in Law.... He works in IT and it's the kind of thing he would say!
:o) jo
Hazel, Jo, Jollygit,
I love it when we share! Moose, thank you for letting us share.
By the sound of it, we've all been in the same boat - having to wade our own way through and find out everything for ourselves. Because my own gorgeous mother could never even say the word "nipple" to me, I decided that I would be as honest and open as possible with Ms S. Not always easy, but it's the only way!
Hazel: what a week you are having -you're a bit of a star being so positive!
C xx
With all this chatter this afternoon - I find this strangely relevant!
:o) Jo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6221540.stm
Thia is a pre-warning that I may have some very big news to share with you all.... tomorrow.... eeeeek!!!!!!!!!
It's tomorrow, it's tomorrow!
What's the news?????
:o) Jo
Ooooooh Lyndyloooooo,
Where are you?!
Cxx
I am currently unable to cope with any more excitement. My boss has ordered a vet with a gun. He says I have lost it. What I have lost, I have no idea. However this could possibly be be it.
On no account press the red button.
Why no
Hazel,
As much as I am no lover of the great wild outdoors, it must be so exciting in your part of the world - hawks, swifts even bunnies. And now guns! All I have to look forward to on any given day is to stick to the rules and cross the road at the green man!
Hope everyone is o.k. Can't believe it's Thursday already!
C xx
ChrissieS, I'm intrigued you have a green man in your town. We have silver and gold men along the promenade in the summer pretending to be stachews, and they make me cross too.
...and with regard to the hawk, slightly less bunnies I think...
Anyhoo, I have SO much work to do. Something is rotten in the state of Hazel...so, would anyone mind emailing me if lyndyloo EVER puts us out of our misery please...
Many ts
love
hazel
x
Quiet today isn't it? Is everyone just hanging around waiting for Lyndyloo and not saying anything?
I made a discovery yesterday. From my office window I can see a white horse on a hillside in the distance. Its bloomin' miles away, but definitely there (except today because I can't even see the hills). Its an improvement on the buildign site I could see before. Of course if my boss is reading this, then I'm far too busy to be looking out of the window ...
Back later
PS Hazel - hope you've found whatever it was you lost!
analog, I'm hoping it's in one of the boxes I've already packed.
If not I'm stymied.
Or is that pigs?
ANNOUNCEMENT!
PORT ST GEORGE LIMITED (the project that I've been working on for the past few years) HAS RECEIVED APPROVAL IN PRINCIPAL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAND ON LONG ISLAND BAHAMAS
YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!
luv
Lyndyloo
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FANTASTIC NEWS HONEY!
It must be an amazing feeling to have all your efforts for the last few years coming to fruition, and I bet all the other guys are thrilled too!
***CON-BLIMMIN-GRATULATIONS***
Now then. To business.
Dear Ms Loo.
Would one need planning permission for a small cabin from which to work as a deck chair attendant on the small private beach? If so, please could you supply the relevant forms forthwith. I would also need materials for a cabin and some deck chairs.
I remain yrs
H. Love
Ms.
Lyndyloo that is fantastic news, you must be sooooo excited. Surely a drink or three required now!
So, OAMC - Bahama's, when should we plan it!?
xx
Yay :o)
Does that mean that you have to spend more time out there??? I would take any excuse if I were you! How did you get a job that you obviously enjoy so much? I must keep looking.
Otherwise...
Bagsy the donkey rides job..... I require stables and some carrots.
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together???
:o) Jo (Who feels victimised and harrassed by her nasty bee atch manager)
Lyndyloo,
Great to hear your news! I am definitely up for an OAMC in the Bahamas! Well, alright Mr S and Ms S will have to survive on beans on toast and the occasional chocolate digestive - but they would be happy for me!
Now, as much as this is terrific news, I was saying a silent prayer that you were about to tell us that Brad Pitt had left that utter and complete raving lunatic Angelina, and had found you! Another day, perhaps.
Still, it's great news and PLEASE keep us updated!
C xx
P.S. Moose, when do you leave tomorrow? I hope you bid us goodbye!
Meanwhile, in other news...
New guidelines on action to take in various emergency situation has been made available to the general public. take a look folks, remember this could be life or death
http://www.nirvani.net/misc/emergency/
:o) Jo
Lyndyloo - well blast me drawers and well done you!!!! That's fantastic news - I really hope you'll be getting to go over there as frequently as you want to!
I'm sure you need a PA type person to accompany you on yer trips and I'm yer man ... well, woman acksherly, and I'd be delighted to accept the job, thank you for asking!!!!!
Seriously tho, makes all the hard worthwhile doesn't it?!
jollygit xx
Moose.
I have been far too busy and important to partake too often of your wonderous blog today.
Anyway, if you are going to leave us with something further to munch on, or just let us sink into unfathomable realms on here, I for one don't mind.
But can I be Frank? (If you check, there will be a Frank in about chapter 114)
Have a great trip, and if you still wanna get into those xxs steer clear of the ho-jos and the xs xxx
love
hazel
x
ps have you hired a sleigh? I hear it's a bit chilly in Boston this time of year...be tough for a Moose to get around on the subway. Unless it's got meatballs.
I promise I'm going now, and I'm going to get my prescription filled too.
til demanne
mes petis
x
Moose - have a fabulous time. Im sure it will be brilliant for you.
I am off for a fortnight in lovely St Ives tomorrow so will catch up with you all on my return.
Loving your work.
xx
Moose,
I must take my leave - the Post Office calls and I can never resist those Recorded Delivery letters!
Have a fantastic trip - I can't begin to convey my envy! Hope to hear all about it on your return.
Anna - St Ives - my understanding is it's totally beautiful. Have a terrific time and enjoy your break!
For the rest of us, have a lovely Thursday evening - see you tomorrow!
C xx
Congratulations Lyndyloo. As most of the beach related posts appear to have been filled, can I apply to be official hammock tester? I promise to spend at least an hour in each hammock checking it is securely fastened and the palm trees are strong enough to hold a full-sized adult. I can throw carrots to Jo's donkeys and will keep an eye on HL's deckchairs when she nips off. I can type as well, so if Jollygit needs help, I'm the girl ...
Moose & Anna - Have a great time in your separate destinations.
Jo - love the emergency measures - I think I might print them off and display them in the office. They could be really useful!!!!
Back tomorrow. Toodle Pip.
Analog - "you're hired"! Even a PA type person needs help sometimes!
Moose - I know you've been busy but we've missed you. Have a wonderful trip, enjoy the fairly flash hotel and as they used to say in Hill Street Blues, "take care out there" !
jollygit xxx
Good Morning!
Moose - you're sounding great; well done on the weightloss, I know how good it makes you feel - keep going! As for the interview and the trip - Wowee!!!
Prisons - hmmm - breeding ground for hardened criminals. Bring back Capital punishment and yes - deport all those foreign nationals that come here and abuse our laws.
Abortion - that's a hard one. Don't believe in it as a method of contraception, but I don't believe most women go into it lightly. A friend (in a very similar situation to me) had an abortion last year. She agonised over the decision and I went with her to the clinic. All very heart wrenching really. We held a little dinner party in November, in rememberance. So sad.
Righty. I feel great - up and at 'em at dawn this morning. Off to my local Abbey for some peace and solitude after I've dropped the kids off, so will drop by after then.
(It's Friday - YAY!!!)
S xx.
Oh, forgot to say, my friends 10yo son asked her the other day what a w*nk*r was.... She told him to look it up on Wikipedia... he did and then came back to her and said "it says 'one who masterbates'. What's materbate?" She told him he was too young to know and left it like that. The problem is - he does have an older brother, so I don't suppose it remained a mystery for too long!
S xx.
Morning all,
I do not know why but first thing inn the morning seems to be the only time I get to myself these days at work. ;-(
Still better than no me time at all I guess!
Lyndyloo, congratulations on the news about the new development getting the go ahead! :-))) Exciting times indeed!
Keith the BigUn
Xx
P.S. just coz can…
An 80-year-old man went to his doctor for his quarterly check-up. The doctor asked him how he was feeling, and the 80-year-old said, Things are great and I've never felt better. I now have a 20 year-old bride who is pregnant with my child. So what do you think about that?"
The doctor considered his question for a minute and then began to tell a story.
"I have an older friend, much like you, who is an avid hunter and never misses a season. One day he was setting off to go hunting. In a bit of a hurry, he accidentally picked up his walking cane instead of his gun." "As he neared a lake, he came across a very large male beaver sitting at the water's edge. He realised he'd left his gun at home and so he couldn't shoot the magnificent creature. Out of habit he raised his cane, aimed it at the animal as if it were his favourite hunting rifle and went 'bang, bang'."
"Miraculously, two shots rang out and the beaver fell over dead. Now, what do you think of that?" asked the doctor.
The 80-year-old said, "If you ask me, I'd say somebody else pumped a couple of rounds into that beaver."
The doctor replied, "My point exactly."
Good morning and thank you-know-who it's Friday!
We are going to our friends' house tonight and they are such a great couple, but absolutely obsessed with Big Brother! They watch every moment of it from the start and text us constantly to ask us what we think of the latest argument about who left a towel over the wrong chair! Well, of course, we avoid BB like the plague. However, I did watch it the other night when some guy won £100,000 and I have checked the website, just so I have some idea of who we are talking about! Mr S refuses to acknowledge the existence of BB, so he will throwing wine down his throat tonight, to dull the pain!
I feel very sad Moose has gone - it's gonna be very strange without him, won't it?!
Keith - great joke, as always!
Hope everyone else is o.k. Will check back later.
C xx
Keith - loved the joke!
Chrissie - I don't envy you this evening!! I watched BB a few series ago and they were a fairly entertaining crowd but this year - I lost interest after the first night!
I hope Moose's trip to the US of A does him good and he comes back with lots of stories and musings for us.
It's finally stopped raining here but it's looking rather grey. I'm off to France for the day tomorrow on the ferry - I'm praying for calm seas cos the last time I was on a ferry we got caught in a Force 9 gale and it wasn't pretty, no siree.
HL - hope you're OK and not got caught up in the bubble wrap!
TFI Friday - have a good one.
jollygit xx
Morning all - I know it's Friday but I feel like I have lost my mojo...... This just made me larf though!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8922875251875301807
Moose, may your travels be fruitful and safe....
Chrissie, normally I would be able to fill you in on BB but this year has by passed me completely. I didn;t even make it to the launch show, rather read the rumours and decided to opt out. Although I have been keeping tabs on it throuch tinterweb.
Still raining here, and dinner with the outlaws tonight....JOY, my life is complete!
HL - my advice for packing - keep the kettle, milk and coffee/tea within arms reach at all times. Or alternatively make sure you have plenty of booze around to numb the pain.
And keep paper shreddings for delicate items but don't let a 9 weeks old puppy play with them.
:o) Jo
There - I feel much calmer now x x
So nice to be find somewhere tranquil to slow down, take a breath and meditate on things that would otherwise cause me untold stress.
Got back a while ago, but have been dealing with all the messages on my phone - ouch!!! One missed call miraculously turned into 5 voicemail messages - going back to Wednesday! How did that happen? Divine intervention? Seems like the feeding of 5000 went wrong somewhere along the line...
Looking forward to going out tonight. haven't seen special frined since Tuesday and while it;s been nice to have some time to myself - I have missed him a little! I suppose that's a good thing.
Jo - how is the bump? Have the indigestion and back ache improved at all?
Keith - great joke, thanks honey.
HL - Want a hand packing? Any excuse for time at the seaside!
Jollygit - fingers crossed for a smooth crosing.
Chrissie - BB has lost it's shine for me - GET CHARLEY OUT!!!!! She is one of the worst people I have ever seen on TV, next to Maxwell and his little floozy that is...
S xx.
P.S. Looked at wedding dresses yesterday (a friend's getting married), oh my, they were divine! I'm not going down that route again, but wouldn't it be fun to have girlfriends round for an evening, with a wedding dress dress-code?
Hi everyone!
Thankyou for your kind words and offers of help on the pending beach projects. The OAMC Long Island should be planned very soon. As you can imagine we have all been partying hard in fact last night was our annual summer company bash. The phone has been ringing itself off the wall and we are reserving plots (still available) with alarming regularity. This afternoon we're off to an Ascot party held by our firm of solicitors here in Leicester so there's more champagne to be drunk yet.
Jolly, Hazel, Jo, Chrissie S et al, you are all welcome to help at the donkey, sunbed, ice cream and other parlours as soon as they have been constructed. Bad news is that construction won't even start for about another 10 months. However virtual tours could be organised straight away.
Do hope Moose is having fab time....
Luv
Lyndyloo
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Oh, it's lovely to get a wee bit of company!
Jollygit - I really hope tomorrow is nice for you. When my sister lived in Margate, she regularly went to France just for the day. You are so lucky to be so near!
Jo - can someone please explain to me why is it always so difficult with the in-laws?! I tried so, so hard with Mr S's parents (no longer with us) but to no avail. They just did not like me no matter what I did, and I was so young at the start, it really traumatised me! I have made up my mind, whoever Ms S ends up with, I HAVE to get along with him, or else I'll be the one to lose.
Sammie, please, please can we have a wedding dress party! I would love that! I'd like to say I could still wear my own, but oh boy, what a lie that would be!
Lyndyloo - good for you girl! Champagne at the Ascot party! Look, it's a tough life, but someone has to do it! Will you wear a hat, just for the hell of it?
Hazel - thinking of you at this trying time!!
C xx
I know what you mean about fitting into your wedding dress - and mine was only last year!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5611&l=412f8&id=661181955
for anyone who wants to see a selection of photies.
As for in-laws, I'm dreading how they are going to be after the baby is born. I feel like saying to them that tehir son is my responsibility now and they have no right to keep asking him to do things for them on the spur of the moment, when he feels like he can't say no. He is torn between keeping his folks on board and placating me.
I can spy my mojo far far away in the distance but it's not getting any closer.
:o) Jo
Oh Jomojomojo!
My second ex - used to go round to his sister's and his mum's all the time to 'fix the washing machine, mend the shelf, help with something heavy, paint a door'. I had to put my foot down in no uncertain terms after I got right fed up with it...for one, it was spoiling our weekends - can't go til late on Saturday coz I've gotta go round to...in the morning etc. His dad could do half the stuff, and his sister earned quite enough to hire someone...s'okay when he was single, but as soon as he had responsibilities in 'our' house...that's what got me, but mainly because he kept saying yes, they kept asking!
I told him I'd had enough, and once he started (eventually) saying no, they sorted it out themselves anyway! The thing is, the only reason Mr Jo needs for saying no is that he wants to spend these last few precious weeks with his wife before the baby is born...try it, they may just suck it up...
Anyhoo, on to Good Friday darlings...for your delectation and delight, and extract from a piece on the beebeeceeb nudes about obituaries...
"It must have horrified Douglas Martin who wrote an obituary of a comic actor called Sid Raymond for the New York Times last year when his piece ended with the words:
"One of his last jokes involved a son sending a prostitute over to his widowed father, in his 90s, still a self-proclaimed ladies' man. She tells him she is his birthday present and will give him whatever he'd like. "I'll take the soup," he says.
It took a while for someone to point out the omission of a line in this corny joke. The prostitute should have added. "I'm here to give you super sex", at which the old man says "I'll take the soup.""
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I thank you
Have just got egg stuck under my alt key. What does this mean please? Although have to admit it is an extraordinarily messy roll...
Having egg under you alt key (am assuming it's mixed with mayonnaise or else is a very small egg) means that you will never be able to do these things
áéíóú
:o) Jo
PS - Mr Jo knows about it all but they actually are quite manipulative (I think) and don't ask him things but say stuff like - it'll be OK for you to do X n Saturday, Monday night, etc. won't it?
Or 'we'll see you for dinner on Friday then?'
Thus making it very difficult to say no.
I do have to bite my tongue and have already expressed concern about some baby related comments that have been made.
:o) Jo
In-laws, out-laws, whatever they're called they're a problem to someone. I consider myself lucky that I don't have in-laws to deal with as Mr L's parents had departed this earth long before I met him. My sister has a hate-hate relationship with her MiL - sees her about twice a year (three times too many!) and just about tolerates staying in the same room for a few hours.
TGIF!
OMG, in-laws ... my first M-I-L was vile with a capital V and she's one of the reasons why I can't even set foot in Coventry (see previous blogs!). She always called my ex her 'precious son' and during a massive argument I blurted out that her 'precious son' had been unfaithful several times during our marriage (we'd only been married three years at this point). Her only response was "that happens in every marriage - you just have to accept it and be grateful that you've got a husband".
Chrissie - I was definitely traumatised after the above so I do understand!
Thankfully 'im indoors has a wonderful mum who I get on with brilliantly ...
jollygit xx
I don't think I could do those anyway...aeiou please Carol.
I hear what you are saying you poor baa lamb. I think I'd want to punch all of them by now! And I only approve of violence in the same way as I approve of strong liquor. Only when absolutely unavoidable.
SO? Would you like your Auntie Hazel to come and give them a piece of her mind? The mood I'm in at the moment, they'd never ask again...or you could use the Kray Twins?
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!
Blimey zat the time? Better finish todays work...
ps was with mayonnaise. Also have some on (some would say purple) blue skirt. Was going "aeiou!!" when noticed grease stain. Well, am hoping is grease stain.
Moose, are you there yet?
It's been so interesting reading everyone's comments about the in-law's!
Jo - and this is so important - when your baby arrives, your family becomes you, your husband and the baby. Whoever doesn't like that, will have to sing for it! This is not easy - even my own parents were very demanding of me when Ms S was little. I worked full time, got up early every Saturday did the housework (while Mr S did the food shopping) and got me and the baby ready to go to my mum and dad's. One day I arrived about an hour later than I meant to and my dad was so angry with me saying "your mum's been waiting for you all day" - I was actually trembling. I walked through to the livingroom to complete silence and I started to take the baby's jacket off. Then I thought "you know something? this is out of order" so I dressed Ms S and said "I'm really sorry, but I am OUT of here". Tears from my mum, apologies from my dad, I was breaking up inside but I thought, I have to nip this in the bud. It was so difficult, but they had to understand, my priorities were different and I just couldn't jump when they said "jump"!
Ooooooh, it's a minefield!!
C xx
hello All
well done moose! on both weight and interview..will I recognise you in St Ives? I will have to actually use that P mc CD which has been languishing in my knicker drawer for a year!
Anna - have a good one in the lovely town. I'll be there in 3 weeks
Hazel = good luck with the packing
Lyndyloo=Yeah! years of hard work..well done..do you need some one to carry your bags?
can I join in on the innocent stories? I was talking to my dad one day, a long long long time ago, I was about 15, he about 47 and I refered to a minor bristol celebrity as a wank*r. My dad was speechless, and looked at me open mouthed, and my 47 years old mum piped up.."whats a wank*r?" Luckily I didn,t get told off cos my dad was laughing so much.
Love to all
Have a good weekend
Love Caroline
All,
Sorry all, having 'one of THOSE days' today - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh and that bl**dy Umberella song is on - my teenager from hell loves it - more aaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhh
In Laws - very, very tricky. My (sson to be ex ones) loved me - Bank of Sammie I was. They got my hubby to go round at the drop of a hat for whatever drama they had going on at the time - never mind the fact he has 2 other brothers and a sister! One day his mum (wicked, poisenous woman that she is) made a comment about when did I think ****ey (they had to add -ey to his name - made him sound like a baby or a drippy dog)would be able to put the fencing up in their garden. To which I replied, once he's finished doing everything in OUR house. Why don't you ask your husband, other sons or son-in-law to do it for you? She wasn't very pleased and probably bad mouthed me around the family for it, but you know what? They stopped calling him!
Anyhow - Teen from hell has taken son to Barbers (she offered), so I can get on with my work. Why then, am I typing on here? I know - cos you;re all wonderful - that's why!
Lindyloo - didn't get a chance earlier - congrats on your project getting off the ground and I hope you have a FAB time at Ascot.
Have a great weekend all, I know I intend to - if I ever finish working that is!
Love
S xx.
Guess who's back
Back Again
Dissings Back
It seems everyone has had a peculiar week.
Congrats Lyndyloo
Hazel, Have you found what you're looking for?????
DD back but out!!!
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